. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPlRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PJS. A PURSUER OF MANY PRIZES—THE SANTLVGO DE CUBA. H This vigilant blockader was one of the first to see active service. As early as December 3, 1861,Commander D. B. Ridgelj brought her ten gnns to l)ear npon the schooner ^ict()ria* and cap-tured her off Point Isalxd on her way to the West Indies with a cargo of cotton. In Febrnarj ofthe next year, the Santiago caught the sloop O. K. off Cedar Keys, Florida. The nextmonth she drove a blockade-runner ashore. On April 23, 1862, she captiucd two schooners and
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPlRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PJS. A PURSUER OF MANY PRIZES—THE SANTLVGO DE CUBA. H This vigilant blockader was one of the first to see active service. As early as December 3, 1861,Commander D. B. Ridgelj brought her ten gnns to l)ear npon the schooner ^ict()ria* and cap-tured her off Point Isalxd on her way to the West Indies with a cargo of cotton. In Febrnarj ofthe next year, the Santiago caught the sloop O. K. off Cedar Keys, Florida. The nextmonth she drove a blockade-runner ashore. On April 23, 1862, she captiucd two schooners and(two days later) a steamer, all on their way from Charleston loaded with cotton. On Ajiril 30thshe added to her prizes the schooner Maria, and on May 27th the schooner Lucy C. Holmes,lioth with more cotton; on August 3, 186-2, at sea, the steamer Columbia, loaded witli munitionsof war, and on August ^Tth the schooner Lavinia with a cargo of turpentine. In 1863 the side-wheel steamer Britannia and the blockade-runner Lizzie were her captures, the former loadedheavily with cotton. Cotton was so valualile at this stage of the war that i
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